Education Coordinator at Save The Children

The Job Holder will coordinate the planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting on the Education projects. In addition, support the Education project team to deliver Education projects activities in line with SCI commitments and lead involvement of local authorities and community members in the project; and support project team to mobilize community to ensure participation, sustainability of the project as well as the voices of community members, including women and children are heard. 

The Education Coordinator in close collaboration with the Project Manager will assist vulnerable children to receive quality education in child-friendly and safe environments. The post holder will support assessment, response analysis, design and implementation of the Education component of Save the Children refugee response in Benue and Cross River State, Nigeria. The Education Coordinator will particularly ensure the technical support to all education project implementation in an integrated manner with Child Protection and other program components in the response. 

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:  

Projects Coordination & Management: 

• Coordinate the project orientation meetings in the 2 States (Cross River and Benue) with government officials, INGOs, NNGOs partners.  
• Lead the coordination and implementation of Education Activities across Benue and Cross River State in line with the design of the project and donor requirements. 
• Establish, maintain and strengthen linkages with the key stakeholders of the project in order to manage and implement as per the project design. 
• Coordinate community entry meetings for the project in the targeted Local Government Areas (LGAs) in Cross River and Benue States 
• Monitor and ensure timely and quality reports are submitted as per the reporting requirements.  
• Working closely with Project Manager, Supply Chain, Finance and MEAL to ensure quality program delivery, documentation and reporting of progress. 
• Support Profuturo coaches and Manager to deliver digital learning in targeted schools 

Operational Planning and implementation 

• Education Coordinator will coordinate planning, development, implementation, monitoring, documentation and reporting for Benue and Cross River States. 
• Effectively support the Education Officers in developing weekly, monthly and annual plans, in line with Project design and Save the Children International planning guidelines. 
• Education Coordinator will ensure compliance with the agreed work plans and that programme objectives and targets are being realized in line with the funding proposal. 
• Maintain high standard of transparency and accountability in the course of project implementation while ensuring integrity and timeliness of activities implementation in meeting programme objectives, compliance with donors & Save the Children policies. 
• Provision of regular operations and implementation updates on project progress and challenges to allow for timely interventions and corrective actions by management. 

Program and Financial Reporting. 

• Work closely with the Project Manager to prepare timely and high quality quarterly narrative and financial reports which are in accordance to the donor reporting schedule and formats. 
• Coordinate and facilitate quarterly follow ups and progress review meetings to address key performance issues from the reports. 
• Internal and external engagements 
• Work closely with the Project Manager in ensuring that the program experience is represented and given recognition at stakeholder meetings, workshops, donor, networks and any other engagements.  
• Develop and maintain regular channels of communication with partners and key stakeholders at all levels (Community, LGEA and State). 

MEAL 

• Effectively support teams in MEAL aspects, which include assessments, baseline and evaluation studies, putting in place a functional Activity Tracking Table. 
• Ensure that the projects quality bench marks are followed up. 
• Collecting and managing complaints and feedback in close coordination with MEAL team and Education Team. 
• Ensure regular monitoring of projects results, documentation of projects case studies, lessons learnt, significant changes and best practices and coordinating learning and reflection meetings/sessions 
• Ensure an effective programs/ projects monitoring and evaluation systems is in place. 
• Monitor programs/ projects activities to ensure quality, timeliness and adherence to both Country Office and Save the Children policies and procedures. 

Technical Oversight     

• In liaison with Project Manager, Field Manager and Head of Education provide guidance and support to projects officers, partners and stakeholders. 

Additional job responsibilities

• The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.